Fungus ring · Deepwood
The Pale Rings
Pale caps in a wide circle, stepping up and round as they go. Something grew these in order.
The Pale Rings is a climbable ring of giant fungi in Deepwood: 10 caps stepping up to a floor 27.8 m above the ground under it.
Measured
- Centre — x -990, z -930
- Ground height — 158.1 m
- Band — Deepwood
- Caps in the climb — 10
- Smallest step up — 2.6 m
- Largest step up — 2.9 m
- Crown floor above ground — 27.8 m
- Crown floor radius — 6.4 m
- Ring radius — 66.8 m
- Wild mushrooms around it — 27
- Nearest named place — The Deepwood Climb, 342 m away
- From Landfall — 1984 m north-west
The climb
10 caps, each one a step up from the last. The smallest step is 2.6 m and the largest 2.9 m, and both numbers are chosen against what a body can actually do rather than against what looks right: the smallest is above the height a plain jump clears, so the ring cannot be walked up, and the largest is below the apex of a pogo hop, so it cannot become impossible either.
Every cap top you can stand on is the circle inscribed in the drawn shape, never the drawn shape itself — so there is no rim of floor sticking out past the geometry holding it up. The top floor is 6.4 m across.
What is up there
The top cap is wide enough to walk on, and there is nothing above it for a long way.
A view, and nothing else. Nothing on this climb is derived from a relic, a Fragment, a quest or a season, and nothing ever will be — the argument for a climb like this is that it is worth doing for its own sake.